[Solved] Infinite email aliases (user-anything) no longer working

pbfloor

I migrated my Kopano installation to a new server platform (from SME Server to ClearOS). Same version (8.4.5.0) on both old and new server. The new server was installed from scratch and the data was migrated.

Everything is working as before except I can no longer receive “Infinite Alias” addressed emails. On the old server (qmail) allowed user-anything@domain.com to pass to user and Kopano (and Zarafa before that) would process the email to user. I never configured anything for this, it just worked out of the box.

The new server (postfix) was bouncing emails addressed to user-anything@domain.com. Logs showed that postfix was bouncing the message because of this default setting in main.cf…

recipient_delimiter = +

Which I changed to this…

recipient_delimiter = -

Now postfix accepts the message but it is getting bounced by Kopano as evidenced here in the dagent log…

Fri Feb 2 10:25:46 2018: [error ] [12478] Failed to resolve recipient user-test@mydomain.com (0)
Fri Feb 2 10:25:46 2018: [error ] [12478] Requested e-mail address "user-test@mydomain.com" does not resolve to a user.

I have scoured all the config files and have not been able to figure this out, can someone please kindly point me in the right direction?

fbartels

Hi @pbfloor ,

You still have to adapt your postfix configuration so that it properly resolves username-alias to just username.

Kopano-dagent needs to get passed either the primary email address of a user or the username.

pbfloor

Felix,
Thanks for the quick reply. All I can say is UGH!!! I know next to nothing about postfix (been using qmail for 15 years). I will make good use of google and post my fix for anyone else that needs help.

pbfloor

For anyone else interested, you can do this via this setting in main.cf
I’m sure there are other ways but I couldn’t find anything that worked. I desperately tried luser_relay but just could not get it to work so I ended up doing this…

virtual_alias_maps = /etc/postfix/virtual

You have to use regex to accomplish it so if you are using the regular virtual alias file as a hash, you will need to create another one and add it to the “virtual_alias_maps =” line. Your virtual aliases will need something like this (this does both user- and user_)…

/^user1-/ user1
/^user1_/ user1
/^user2-/ user2
/^user2_/ user2

You can include any other aliases you want in the file and with regex, the possibilities are endless. Be careful not to allow in everything.

Then don’t forget…

#  postmap /etc/postfix/virtual (or whatever virtual alias file you end up using)
#  postfix reload